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The Philpotts: jailed over children's deaths

PHILPOTTGALLERY

Thu 4 Apr 2013

Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead making an appeal to the media at Derby Conference Centre, Derby, regarding the perpetrators of a fire at their house on May 11th, 2012, in which six of their children died. Philpott has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years at Nottingham Crown Court after being found guilty of the children's manslaughter. His wife was jailed for 17 years after also being found guilty of the killings. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

Coffins bearing the remains of the Philpott children arrive at St Mary's Catholic Church on Bridgegate, Derby on June 2nd last year. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

This image shows the upstairs bedrooms in which the children died. Photograph: CPS/PA Wire

An undated handout photo from the Crown Prosecution Service of the bathroom at the house at Victory Road, Allenton, Derby after a fire in which the six Philpott children died. Photograph: CPS/PA Wire

The front room of the house in the aftermath of the fire. Photograph: CPS/PA Wire

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The scene outside the Philoptt home after the fatal fire. Photograph: CPS/PA Wire

An artist's drawing dated February 12th last of Mick Philpott and wife Mairead at a hearing at Nottingham Crown Court along with co-accused Paul Mosley (right), ahead of their trial for the manslaughter of the Philpotts' six children. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA Wire

Det Supt Kate Meynell (second right), Asst Chief Constable Steve Cotterill (centre) and Jimmy Duffy (centre left), the father of Mairead Philpott, listen as a statement is read outside Nottingham Crown Court by Sam Shallow of the Crown Prosecution Service, as Mick and Mairead Philpott were convicted by jurors of the unlawful killing of their six children. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

Onlookers react to a police van believed to be transporting Mick or Mairead Philpott leaving Nottingham Crown Court the day before their sentencing for killing their children. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

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Mick Philpott and wife Mairead in tears before members of the media at Derby Conference Centre, Derby on May 16th last year after the fire. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Wire